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Colloquium
Speaker
Pranav Pandit (ICTS - TIFR, Bengaluru)
Date & Time
Mon, 29 November 2021, 15:30 to 17:00
Venue
Online and Ramanujan Lecture Hall
Resources
Abstract

Notions of geometry have evolved throughout the history of mathematics, often in parallel with developments in physics. I will discuss a recent chapter in this story. This chapter is deeply interwoven with ideas from string theory. In the type of geometry that I will describe, higher categories play the role of geometric spaces. The theory will be illustrated by examples drawn from diverse areas of mathematics.